Oxford handbook of megaproject management

The oxford handbook of mega project management states that its ambition is to become the ultimate source for stateoftheart scholarship in. The team mega often implies the size of the task involved in developing, planning, and managing projects of this magnitude. Megaprojects are large, complex projects which typically cost billions of dollars and impact millions of people, like building a highspeed rail line, a megadam, a national health or pensions it system, a new widebody aircraft, or staging the olympics. Levitt and scott featured in oxford handbook of megaproject management wednesday, june, 2018 largescale investment projects, which impact millions and typically cost over a billion. The oxford handbook of megaproject management flyvbjerg. Bent flyvbjerg, editor bent flyvbjerg is professor and founding chair of major programme management at. The oxford handbook of megaproject management oxford.

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The oxford handbook of megaproject management by bent. Lessons from history by sylvain lenfle and christoph loch november 2015 this is a draft of a chapterarticle that has been accepted for. The book offers a rigorous, researchoriented, uptodate academic view of the discipline based on highquality data and strong theory. Leo dobes crawford school of public policy, australian national. A reflection of the stateoftheart in megaproject research.

The oxford handbook of megaproject management megaprojects are very large investment projects. Megaprojects are large, complex projects that typically cost billions of dollars and impact millions of people, like building a highspeed rail line, a megadam, a national health or pensions it system, a new widebody aircraft, or staging the olympics. About megaprojects are increasingly important for solving 21st century problems from developing carbonneutral fuels to preventing a future global recession. Originally considered to be the special case of project management where the budgets were enormous billions of. The oxford handbook of megaproject management, oxford. Care should be taken in comparing the cost of projects from different times, even a few years apart due to inflation. The oxford handbook of project management ebook by.

Megaproject management is a newish subfield of project management. First, megaprojects are defined and the size of the. A reflection of the stateoftheart in pp megaproject. The oxford handbook of megaproject management ebook by. The oxford handbook of megaproject management ebook written by bent flyvbjerg.

The oxford handbook of megaproject management, edited by prof. This handbook is currently in development, with individual articles publishing online in advance of. It furthers the universitys objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide. This handbook is currently in development, with individual articles publishing online in advance of print publication. The oxford handbook of megaproject management ebook, 2017.

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